Italiano
BNL Gruppo BNP Paris, the Main Partner of the Rome Film Fest for the sixteenth consecutive year, has chosen for the first time to acknowledge, with a ten thousand Euro grant, the art and mastery of those working behind the camera: screenwriters, directors and authors, figures who play a key role in inspiring new emotions with every film.
BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas has chosen to reward the quality of the work, the courage to innovate and experiment, the personal and professional career, the capacity to interpret the present time within a vision of the world: this initiative is meant to support those who, despite the constraints imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, continued to develop their work and their activities.
The recipient of the award is director Giuseppe Bonito for his film L’arminuta.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, the film was produced by Roberto Sbarigia for Maro Film, Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco for Baires Produzioni, Javier Krause for Kaf with Rai Cinema. It will be released in theatres today, Thursday October 21st, distributed by Lucky Red.
Bonito, a talented director at his third film, uses a very effective cinematic language to translate the story of a teenager who is inexplicably torn from her foster family, who raised her lovingly in the city for thirteen years, and is catapulted into a rural archaic world, to be with her biological family, which to her eyes is unfamiliar, cold and distant.
Her little sister – the first to welcome her with curiosity and affection – and the bond they create between them, as well as the safe haven she finds in her studies and writing, will help her to deal with the feelings of shame, discomfort and alienation that haunt her throughout the film, during which she will try to understand why she was abandoned.
The film delicately addressed the themes of fostering, inclusion and emancipation through schooling, the power of people who though opposites try to find common ground. As do the protagonist and her younger sister Adriana, mutually drawing strength from one another.
